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Dietary energy supply per person

Observed

Food available for human consumption, in kilocalories per person per day, as used in FAO's undernourishment estimates.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, World
3,026kcal per person per day
period 2024
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2024
Unit
kcal per person per day
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+9contextual+0.30%2023 to 2024from 3,017 to 3,026 kcal per person per day
10-year trend+0.45% per yearcontextual+4.63%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total +134 kcal per person per day, from 2,892 to 3,026 kcal per person per day
Historical series

Dietary energy supply per person, World

Observed
2,7002,8002,9003,0003,100200020052010201520202024KCAL PER PERSON PER DAY3,026
25 observations, 2000 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (25 rows)
Dietary energy supply per person, World: 25 observations from 2000 to 2024, values from 2,705 to 3,026 kcal per person per day. Latest 3,026 kcal per person per day in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (kcal per person per day)Source revisionIngested at
20243,0262026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20233,0172026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20223,0032026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20212,9822026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20202,9582026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20192,9462026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20182,9262026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20172,9242026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20162,8982026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20152,8772026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20142,8922026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20132,8652026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20122,8512026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20112,8462026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20102,8262026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20092,8072026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20082,8032026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20072,7842026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20062,7562026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20052,7382026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20042,7232026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20032,7132026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20022,7072026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20012,7052026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
20002,7092026-07-212026-09-07 20:00 UTC
160 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series FS:220001:6128
Definition

What this measures

Dietary energy supply is the food available for human consumption, expressed in kilocalories per person per day, derived from FAO food balance sheets and used in the estimation of the prevalence of undernourishment. It measures supply, not intake: it includes food wasted at the retail and household level. FAOSTAT domain FS, item Dietary energy supply used in the estimation of the prevalence of undernourishment (kcal/cap/day) (220001), element Value (6128), unit kcal/cap/d. Annual from 2000.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
country
Slug
dietary-energy-supply
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
FS:220001:6128last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-21(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 20:16 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored.
Ingestion rejects values outside 500 to 6,000 kcal per person per day.
25 periods with values for this geography, 2000 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (kcal per person per day)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-213,0262026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.